Region 9 in Hobbs that is due to begin in a few days has the practice day on
Friday June 3 along with the mandatory pilots meeting that evening and the
first contest day is Saturday June 4 then going for 7 contest days to the
following Friday.

In my relatively short racing career of 8 or so years I don't remember this
occuring and the practical matter is that I didn't arrange for the extra
time off in order to get there on time assuming that when they said June
4-10 it meant the practice day was on Saturday. In fact even though I know
that the rules state it can happen, I can't remember another 7 day
regionals! I hope that others don't get caught assuming the same.

Casey